I‘ve played a bunch of Indonesian video games recently and they were all quite wholesome. They also did not feature same sex romances…

Uhm yes. A second argument was that the children need to learn media literacy with the medium they use the most. Of course this would need more competence and guiding on the side of the teachers.

Educational experts, at least here in Germany, advise against a ban. A phone enables participation for a child among children who‘ll just work around the ban. The net effect will be negative.

„re-educated“

Yeah alright I blame them, but of no consequence. I should put my own house in order first.

Can’t blame them. The West will also buy controversial resources and goods from whereever we get the best deal. Morals are only questioned in Russia’s case because we are directly threatened by their military, but we really can’t give a fuck about the Uyghurs in China, or civil wars over rare metals, burned down primeval forest, child labour, etc.

20?? The devs gonna burn out just as fast.

Games generally, in every budget class, take longer to develop but they are not generally worse.

My longest playthrough this year has been The Last Of Us Pt. II I think. Didn’t really play a game with a freeform game loop.

There are amazing gems out there that got that way by releasing it first in early access, or that only got a budget via kickstarter. Those are legitimate tools despite foul apples.

Yep no other way to disable achievements.

The big money makers are Fortnite, yearly iterations of CoD and EA Sports titles, and mobile gacha crap. They overshadow „smaller“ AAA releases, which still mostly don’t have any mtx. Your examples are legendary. But do you remember any other flop on the 2600? Or games like Haze? Now forgotten like most other flops.

I think you’re high on nostalgia. Failures are not memorable, that’s why we can’t remember them. What you describe are a bunch of big money makers from the big publishers. It’s very easy to stear around them and still get more great games than there’s time to play them.

Like most major releases the past decade.

That’s disingenuous. You have terrible games now, you’ve got them 40 years ago.

Yes, but this has nothing to with my initial statement.

Plenty of software still supports Windows 7. So literally not everything they made still works, there is no guarantee.

Yes but thinking a piece of hardware will receive support for eternity is naive. That’s all I‘m saying.

That’s no guarantee. It‘s naïve. And Steam stopped working on Windows 7 machines, so—

You‘ll need a community effort to continue driver development.

I wrote and didn’t speak, did you think? The drivers will need maintenance.